Needle



(No Model.)

'0. H. MERRILL.

. NEEDLE. No. 335,133. Patented Feb.-2, 1886.

v u I 75mm 3 6mm YNIIE ST TES PATENT FFIEE.

OLIVER H. MERRILL, OF MANCHESTER, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN BUT- TONFASTENER COMPANY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

NEEDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,138, dated February2:, 1886.

Application filed May 1, 1884. Serial No. 129,917. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OLIVER H. MERRILL, of Manchester, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Needles; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, whereby a person skilled inthe art can make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Like letters in the figures indicate the same parts.

Figure l is a side view of my improved needle. Fig. 2 is an end view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same, showing the method ofthrusting it into any fabric in using it. Fig. 4 is a side view ofsame,showing the method of pulling it completely through the fabric.

My improvement relates more particularly to the class of needles adaptedfor heavy work or for use in coarse, tough, or heavy materialas canvas,leather, and the like; and itconsists in making a needle with a bentportion between the point and eye, as more particularly hereinafterdescribed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter (1 denotes a needle, preferablyof steel; 1), an open eye formed in the head 0 by bending up the end, asshown; d, a tongue that may be drawn smaller at its end than the body ofthe needle and adapted to fit into an open groove or socket, a, made inthe needle-body. At a convenient part of the needle-body, between thehead a and the point e, a bend, f, is formed, preferably a single bend,dividing the needle-shaft into what may be called the pointsection andthe eyesection, which parts in the bent shape of the needle lie in 1,0planes at substantially right angles to each other, and thus present ashoulder, whereby the means of grasping and holding the needle in useshall be increased over that possible in the use of the ordinarystraight or curved 45 shaft needles.

I am aware that needles having a bent end, forming What I have called anopen eye, are old in the art, and that needles that are curved near thepoint or along the shaft are also old 0 in the art, and such I do notclaim.

The advantages resulting from my improvement are apparent from a slightexamination of the method of using the same, as illustrated in Figs. 3and 4. In inserting the needle it 5 maybe forced in by the thumb of theuser, applied to the back of the bend, and in drawing it through thefingers introduced under the bend aid in the action.

I claim as my improvement A needle, a, havinga point, 0, an open eye,I), and a bend,f, between the point and eye, such that the eye-sectionlies in a plane substantially at right angles to the pointsection of theneedle, all substantially as described. 6

OLIVER H. MERRILL.

Witnesses:

H. R. WILLIAMS, A. G. TANNER.

